Asbestos Exposure and Mesothelioma in West Virginia

The jurisdiction of Charleston, West Virginia is considered a “judicial hellhole” - meaning that when it comes to tort litigation between plaintiffs who are the victim of corporate malfeasance and corporate defendants, chances are good that the court will side with the plaintiff.

Considering how corporations have behaved in the most impoverished state in the Union, it should come as no surprise.

Industry and Asbestos in West Virginia

Coal mining and some limited oil drilling continue to form the basis of West Virginia's economy, although the latter has yet to produce any real results. There are nonetheless two major oil refineries in West Virginia, and a British study of petroleum workers demonstrated that such workers are substantially more likely to contract asbestos disease. West Virginia is also home to several chemical plants as well as a number of power generation facilities. Dangerous amphibole asbestos was frequently employed at such facilities, due to its superior resistance to electrical current as well as caustic and corrosive chemicals.

Ironically, the Morgantown Medical Research Center has also been identified as having asbestos issues. The reason is that that prior to 1980, asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) were used in almost every kind of building material. ACMs were used to insulate water pipes, HVAC ductwork, boilers and electrical conduits in a wide variety of public buildings, including hospitals.

Industrial Asbestos Hazards

Generally, one will find ACMs nearly anywhere that fire, electrical or chemical hazards exist. Laboratory countertops, electrical machinery in insulation, and even protective clothing contained asbestos prior to the early 1980s.

Some asbestos products such as insulation may be “safe” for a time. Eventually however, it becomes “friable.” In this state, ACMs are crumbling into dust, releasing millions of asbestos fibers into the environments. According to several medical studies around the world, power plants and oil refineries are among the most hazardous industrial jobsites for asbestos.

Mesothelioma Statistics in West Virginia

Between 1980 and 2000 the overall population of West Virginia declined by 140,000 to 1.8 million. 594 of those who left the state also left the world, dying from mesothelioma or asbestosis. Most of these were in the Charleston metro area; 25% lived in Kanawha County, where the vast majority succumbed to the latter disease – despite the fact that asbestosis is not invariably fatal, and that with proper treatment, patients are able to manage the disease for many years.

Asbestos Exposure in West Virginia Cities

Provided below is a list of cities in the state of West Virginia where asbestos jobsites are known to have been located. If you worked at any of these companies and/or jobsites in West Virginia, there is a possibility that you may have been exposed to harmful asbestos which is known to cause mesothelioma. Click on any link to view a complete list of jobsites in that city.

Asbestos Exposure at West Virginia Jobsites

If someone you know has ever worked at one of the Jobsites listed below, they may have been exposed to high levels of asbestos. Asbestos exposure at any one of these Jobsites could put them at risk to develop malignant mesothelioma or asbestos related lung cancer.

Albright

Albright Power Station

Monongahela Power Company

Potomac Edison

Alloy

Electro Metallurgical Company

Elkem Metals

Union Carbide

West Virginia Hydro Electric Company

Apple Grove

Apple Grove Pulp Company

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Point Pleasant Plant

Shell Chemical Company

Beckley

Beckley Armory

Beckley National Bank

Pinecrest Hospital

United Mine Workers Hospital

V. A. Hospital

Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Beech Bottom

American Gas and Electric Company

Beech Bottom Power Company, Inc.

Ohio Power Company

Wheeling Pittsburg Steel

Belle

Belle Alkali Company

Belle Works

Diamond Shamrock

E.I.Dupont Denemours

Sharples Solvents Corporation

Union Boiler

Benwood

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Benwood Iron Works

Boston & Ohio Railroad

Wheeling Coke Ovens

Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel

Wheeling Steel and Iron Company

Wheeling Steel Corporation

Bluefield

Bluefield Ice & Coal Company

Bluefield Water Works

Bluestone Tract'N Company

Coppinger Machinery

East River Electric Company

Norfolk and Western Railway Company

Buckhannon

Buckhannon Light and Water Company

Corhart Cement Company

Corhart Refractories Company

J. F. Pritchard & Company

Moore's Business Forms

Cabin Creek

Aep Cabin Creek Power Station

Appalachian Electric Power Company

Appalachian Power and Light. Company

Cabin Creek Power Plant

Hope Natural Gas Company

Pure Oil Company

Charleston

A & I Company

Acands, Inc.

Agsten

Allied Services Incorporated

Amherst Industries, Inc.

Ap Green F B Company of Ohio

Appalachian Power Company

Ashland Oil & Refinery Company

Atlas Storage Warehouse

Baldwin Supply Company

Barium Reduction Corp

C&P Telephone Building

Camc General

Carbide & Carbon Chemical

Carbide Maintenance

Charleston Area Medical Center

Charleston General Hospital

Charleston Memorial Hospital

Charleston National Plaza

Columbia Gas Company

Columbia Gas Transmission Corp

Cultural Center

Daniel Boone Hotel

Dougherty Company, Inc

Duekto Comm. Center Fault

E.I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company

Evans Supermarket

Farm Bureau Siding

Ford Motor Company

Furnace Engineering Corp

Gallipolis State Hospital

Goodrich Gulf Chemical Company Institute

Herbert J. Thomas Memorial Hospital

International Nickel Company

John Amos Powerhouse

Kanawa Water and Light Company

Kentucky Utilities Company

Libbey-Owens Ford Glass Company

Libby Owens Ford

Monongahela Power Company

Monsanto Chemical Company

Nl Industries, Inc.

Ohio Power Company

Owens Illinois Glass Company

Port Amherst

Raleigh Junk Company

True Temper Corporation

Union Carbide Chemical Company

United Engineering & Foundry Company

United States Naval Ordnance Plant

West Elementary School

West Virginia Power Company

West Virginia Statehouse

West Virginia Water and Electric Company

Westvaco & Food Machinery Corporation

Westvaco Chemical Div.

Westvaco Chlor Alkalai

Wesvaco Chlorine Products Corporation

Chester

American Tin Plate Company

Celotex Corporation

Chester Rolling Mill Company

Chester Works

Koppers Company, Inc.

Taylor Smith & Taylor

Cresap

Appalachian Electric Power Company

Appalachian Power Company Mit

Captina Operating Company

Consolidation Coal Company

Cresap Powerhouse

Kammer Plant

Mitchell Powerhouse

Ohio Power Company

Dunbar

Acands, Inc.

Ap Green Refractories of Ohio

Armstrong Cork Company

Dunbar Glass

Dunbar Tire and Rubber Company

Port Amherst

Union Carbide Chemical Company

Elkins

Allegheny Veener Plant

Barnard & Wetzek Block Company

C & P Telephone Company

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company - New Dial Building

Elkins Hospital

Follansbee

American Tar Products Company

Follansbee Brothers Company

Kippers Products Company

Koppers Company, Inc.

La Belle Iron Works

Steubenville Plant

Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel

Wheeling Steel Corporation

Gary

Alpheus Preparation Plant

Char. Iron Gary Mdowell Company

Olga Coal Company

P.P. Gary Station

U S Steel Corp

United States Coal and Coke Company

United States Steel Mining Company

Welch, Mcdowell Company

Glasgow

Appalachian Electric Power Company

Appalachian Electric Power Company - Kanawha River Plant

Appalachian Power Company

Appalachian Power Company

Glasgow Powerhouse

Kanawha River Plant

Graham Station

American Gas and Electric

Appalachian Electric Power Company

Ohio Power Company

Ohio Power Company Appalachian Power

Phillip Sporn Plant

Grant Town

East. Assoc. Goal

Eastern Gas & Fuel Association

Federal Coal and Coke Company

Seneca Coal Corporation

Hinton

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company

Hinton Sanitary Board

Hinton Water Light and Supply Company

Sanitary Board

Wv Water Company

Huntington

Ace Industries

American Car Foundry

Asbestos Service Company

C & O Railroad

Camden Inter State Railway Company

Chas. Boldt Glass Company

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company

Connors Steel

Consolidated Light Heat and Power Company

Csx Railroad

Csx Transportation

Danco Incorporated

Enterprise-Black Diamond Corporation

Fesemier Packing Company

Houdaille Hershey Corp

Huntington Auto Supply Machine Shop

Huntington Pipe Incorporated

Huntington State Hospital

Huntington Water Company

Inco Alloys International

International Nickel Company

J.M. Mccoach and Company

Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corp

Locke Manufacturing Company

Martin Steel

Mccorkle Machine

Morehead State College

Ohio Valley Insulating Company, Inc.

Owens Bottle Company

Owens Brockway

Owens Corning Fiberglas Corporation

Owens Illinois Glass Company

Owens-Illinois, Inc.

Panasote Plant

Standard Ultramarine Company

Steel of West Virginia

West Siding

Institute

B. F. Goodrich

Carbide and Carbon Chemical Corp

Dupont

E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Company

Goodrich Gulf Chemicals Inc

Institute West Virginia Plant

Monsanto Chemical Company

Union Carbide & Carbon Chemical Corporation

Kenova

Aristech

Ashland Oil

Consolidated Light, Heat and Power Company

Jefferey De Whitt Escalator Plant

Jeffery Dewitt Insulator Company

Novamount

Ohio Transmission & Pump

Ohio Valley Electric Railway Company

Logan

Am. Gas and Electric Company

Appalachian Electric Power Company

Aracoma Hotel Company

Kentucky and W Va Power Company

Logan Board of Education

Logan County Animal Shelter

Logan County Courthouse

Logan County Light and Power Company

Logan Planning Mill

Office of The County Administrator

Long Reach

Linde Air Products Company

Salt Mine

Union Carbide

Maidsville

Allegheny Energy Supply Company

Fort Martin Power Station

Monongahela Power Company

Valley Camp Coal Company

West Penn Power Company

Martinsburg

Capital Cement Company

Continental Clay Products Company

Corning Glass Works

Interwoven Mills Inc

Martin Marietta Cement Company

Martinsburg Gas Company

Standard Lime & Cement Company

Western Electric Company, Inc.

Wheeling Pittsburg Steel

Mount Storm

Mount Storm Power Company

Mount Storm Station

Mt. Storm Powerhouse

Stone & Webster Engineering Corp

Virginia Electric & Power Company

Virginia Electric & Power Company

Virginia Power & Light

Natrium

Columbia Southern Chemical

Linde Air Products Company

Moray Chemical Corporation

Natrium Plant

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company

New Haven

Aep Graham's Power Station

American Alloys

American Electric Power

Appalachian Power Company

Central Operating Company

Foote Mineral

Mountaineer Power Plant

New Haven Power Plant

Philip Sporn Generating Station

Phillip Sporn Power Plant

New Martinsville

Bayer Corporation

Central Valley Insulation Company

Centurial Products

Columbia Southern Chemical Company

L Air Liquide

Magnolia High School

Mitchell Generating Station/ Ohio Power

Mobay Chemical Company

Pierce Electric

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Chemical Div

United States War Department

Viking Glass Company

Newell

Ergon - West Virginia

Koppers Company, Inc.

Ohio Brass Company

Quaker State Corporation

Nitro

Allied Chemical Company

American Viscose Corporation

Avtex Fibers

Charleston Paper Manufacturing Company

Fike Chemical

Fmc Corporation

Ford Motor Company

General Chemical Div Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation

Great Lakes Chemical Corporation

Monsanto

Monsanto Chemical Company

Monsanto Plant

Plant C

Powder Plant

Roberts Chemical, Inc.

Southern Dyestuffs Company

Tall Oil Plant

Union Boiler Repair Fabrication & Erection Company, Inc

Viscoe

West Virginia Water Works

Parkersburg

Acme Fishing Tool Company

American Viscose Corporation

Ames Baldwin Wyoming Company

Ap Green Refractories Company

Avtex Fibers Inc

Brockway Glass Company

Calco Chemical Div

Citizens Building Supply

Corning Glass Company

Dupont Chemical

Dupont Washinton Bottom

E I Dupont De Nemours Company

Federal Building

Fmc Corp

Kanawha Traction and Electric Company

Keene Corporation

Libbey-Owens Ford Glass Company

Monongahela Valley Traction Company

Parkersburg Gas Electric Light and St. Railway

Parkersburg High School

Parkersburg Iron and Steel Company

Parkersburg Water Works

Union Carbide & Chemicals

Viking Glass Company

Washington Works

Point Pleasant

Marietta Manufacturing Company

Pantasote Company

Point Pleasant Armory

Wv Malleable Iron

Ravenswood

Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation

Ravenswood Aluminum

Rivesville

Allegheny Energy

Monongahela Power and Railway Company

Monongahela West Penn Public Service Company

Mountaineer Coal Company

Rivesville Generating Station/ Monongahela Power

Rivesville Power Plant

Saint Marys

American Cyanamid

Mobay Chemical

Monongahela Power Company

Quaker State Corporation

Quaker State Oil Refining Company

Scary

Appalachian Power Company

John Amos Power House

Ohio Power Company

Sistersville

Sistersville Tank Works, Inc.

Ucc

Union Carbide Corp

Wetzel Tyler Street Railway Company

South Charleston

A & I Company

Allied Chemical

Carbide and Carbon Chemicals

Carbide Developement Center

Chlor Allied Division

Fmc Corporation

Food Machinery & Chemicl Corporation

H.J. Thomas Memorial Hospital

Naval Ordnance Plant

Pmc Corp

Radium Reduction Company

Rollin Chemical Company Inc.

Southeastern Construction Company

Tech Research Ctr Olefins Lab

Thomas Memorial Hospital

Union Carbide & Carbon Chemical Corporation

Union Carbide Chemical Corporation

Union Carbide Institute

Union Carbide Tech. Center Chemical Plant

Volkswagon Plant

West Vaco Chlorine Alkali Divison

West Virginia Paper Company Chemical Corporation

West Virginia Paper Company Chlorine Products

Westvaco Chlorine Prod Corp

Spring Hill

A & I Company

Ashland Oil Inc

Fmc Corp

Girdler Corp

Hastings Company

Kentucky Power Louisa

Mansanto Chemical Company

Ohio Power Company

Ohio Valley Insulating Company Inc

Parkside

Shell Oil Company

Union Carbide Plastics

Vienna

Keene Corp

National Bottle

Owens Illinois Glass

Universal Glass

Washington

Carborundum Metals Company

E.I. Du Pont De Nemours

Saint-Gobain Advanced Ceramics Corporation

Washington Works

Weirton

Continental Can

Koppers Company, Inc.

National Steel

Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate Company

Strip Steel Department

Weir Cove Moving & Storage Company

Weirton General Hospital

Weirton National Steel

Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel

Wellsburg

Banner Fibreboard Company

George Sherrard Paper Manufacturing Company

Hudson Paper Company

International Paper and Power Company

West Penn Power Company

Weston

Colonial Glass

Louis Glass Company

Sun Lumber Company

W Va Hospital For Insane

West Virginia Glass

West Virginia Hospital For The Insane

Weston State Hospital

Wheeling

American Sheet and Tin Plate Company

Amstan Corporation

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Belmont Works

Blaw Knox Centre Foundry

Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company

Boston and Ohio Railroad

Char and Iron Whitaker Glessner Company

Consolidation Coal Company

Continental Foundry & Machine Company

Garvin's Jersey Farms, Inc.

J.L. Stifel and Sons Inc.

La Belle Iron Works

Laughlin Nail Company

National Tube Company Riverside Department

New Sewage Disposal Plant

Paul O. Reymann Company

Pocahontas Tanning Company

Reymann Brewg Company

Riverside Iron Works

Semet Solvay Company

Steubenville and Wheeling Traction Company

T & L Supply, Inc.

Tyler Lube Company

Valley Camp Coal Company

West Va. Traction and Electric Company

Wheeling and Elm Grove Railroad Company

Wheeling College

Wheeling Corrugating Company

Wheeling Electrical Company

Wheeling Jesuit University, Inc.

Wheeling Railway Company

Wheeling Steel Works

Wheeling Traction. Company

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation

Whitaker Glessner Company

Whitaker Iron Company

Wilson and Company

Willow Island

Allegheny Power Service Corporation

American Cyanimide Company

Calco Chemical Company

Cytec Industries Incorporated

Monongahela Power Company

Pleasants Powerhouse

Willow Island Powerhouse

Mesothelioma Cancer Centers in West Virginia

For your convenience, we have compiled a list of mesothelioma cancer centers that are located in West Virginia. Please click on a cancer center link to obtain more information about the clinical programs offered, professional designations, areas of expertise and how to contact the center.

Mesothelioma Doctors in West Virginia

We have also compiled a list of mesothelioma doctors that are located in West Virginia. Please click on a doctor link to obtain more information about his/her background, areas of expertise, professional affiliations, and office locations.

Filing an Asbestos Claim in West Virginia

Don’t lose your rights! If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma and were exposed to asbestos in West Virginia, you may be entitled to compensation. You may have limited time to file a claim. If you have been diagnosed with mesothelioma and have a pathology report in hand to support that diagnosis, you are eligible for financial assistance.

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